Transparency Glossary
Browse 8 transparency terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
8 Transparency Terms
- Open Collective
- A platform used by open source projects and communities to collect funds transparently, manage expenses, and show how money is spent. It is widely used to...
- Open Data
- Data made available for use, reuse, and redistribution under terms that support broad access, often with minimal restrictions such as attribution. Open data is...
- Open Governance
- A governance approach where decisions, roles, roadmaps, and processes are visible and participatory rather than concentrated behind closed doors. In open...
- Open Kimono
- A crude business phrase meaning to reveal inner workings or be unusually transparent. In engineering slang, it appears less often now because many teams...
- Public Disclosure
- The act of making security findings, incidents, or vulnerability details available to the public rather than restricting them to private coordination. Public...
- Public Report
- A report intended for public release that summarizes a security incident, vulnerability, campaign, or assessment in a form suitable for customers, regulators,...
- Status Page Culture
- The norms around how openly and accurately a company communicates outages, degradation, and incident progress to customers.
- Sunlight Test
- An informal check of whether a decision, design, or behavior would still seem acceptable if exposed to public or wider internal scrutiny. The metaphor comes...
Related Topics
- Governance (2 terms in common)
- Incidents (2 terms in common)
- Communities (2 terms in common)
- Reporting (1 terms in common)
- Quality (1 terms in common)
- Data Sharing (1 terms in common)
- Reliability (1 terms in common)
- Funding (1 terms in common)
- Business Jargon (1 terms in common)
- Licensing (1 terms in common)
- Slang (1 terms in common)
- Communication (1 terms in common)
- Vulnerability Disclosure (1 terms in common)